What are you reading???

[Phins4life 271]

Recently finished Apache by Ed Harris. Loved it.

 

Currently working on Lions of Kandahar by Rusty Bradley and Alamut by Vladimir Bartol.

Edited July 7, 2013 by Phins4life

[HUMCALC 3]

"Micro" written by Michael Crichton, after that "Split Second" by David Baldacci

[oochymp 2,393]

I'm now reading Grisham's The Confession, which has been good so far

finished The Confession last week, great novel and an interesting look at the death penalty

 

 

now I'm reading Scott Turow's most recent book, Innocent

[NaTaS+ 958]

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. It's awesome to read his essays and then listen to him read them. Awesome shit.

[GA_Eagle 595]

Physics of the Future and then shortly after I finish that I plan to start Hyperspace by Michio Kaku

[GA_Eagle 595]

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. It's awesome to read his essays and then listen to him read them. Awesome shit.

 

Sedaris is pretty awesome in general. Really liked the books I've read by him.

[oochymp 2,393]

finished The Confession last week, great novel and an interesting look at the death penalty

 

 

now I'm reading Scott Turow's most recent book, Innocent

wow, I haven't posted here in a while, I finished Innocent, it was good, but not as good as some of Turow's other novels, I just finished Michael Connelly's Lost Light, which might be my favorite of his novels that I've read to this point, and I just started another Grisham novel, The Street Lawyer

[Guest Phailadelphia]

Halfway through How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Highly recommend everyone read this book if you haven't already. It's been in publication for 75+ years for a reason.

 

Picked up Fahrenheit 451 today. Plan on reading that and Lolita in the next couple of weeks.

[BwareDWare94 723]

You can't claim it isn't a great literary work when you haven't even read the blasted thing. I've read the HP series and I am finally reading The Wheel of Time series. While I would agree that both are great, neither one is a work like Game of Thrones, (at least so far for WoT, I'm only on book 4).

 

What makes work "great literature?" That's a hard question to answer, and will obviously differ from person to person. GoT is not a work that will be enjoyed by everyone. What I have a problem with is not reading it because of a tiny portion of the book.

 

Well of course they're not like GoT. They're different pieces.

 

I think the HP series gets dismissed because it's aimed at a younger audience, but that shouldn't take anything away from it. It is, imo, easily the best straight up "good vs. evil" story of our generation.

[funnygunny 521]

Been reading The Witcher stories (what the games are based on). Started off with The Last Wish and then Sword of Destiny which are a collection of short stories about the witcher's endeavors tied together with whats happening in the present. Pretty well written and the romance isn't corny.

 

The ideas are fairly complex and make you wonder about shit like destiny. It doesn't spoon feed you the obvious and forces you to string two and two together to figure things out for yourself which I think is really cool. Leaves me pondering and shit. The author (Andrzej Sapkowsk - mad polish guy) left the ending of a story open to interpretation and its been driving me nuts trying to figure out what it was.. grr.

 

Now I'm on to the actual Witcher Saga which consists of 5 books, first one called Blood of Elves.

 

RECOMMEND.

[OSUViking 505]

I'm really liking The Sun Also Rises.

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I'm really liking The Sun Also Rises.

 

That's a great novel if you're into the Lost Generation.

[OSUViking 505]

That's a great novel if you're into the Lost Generation.

 

I loved Gatsby; people have told me that because of that, I will also love The Sun Also Rises. The Grapes of Wrath still looks like a daunting task, however.

[Guest Phailadelphia]

Scratch Lolita and Fahrenheit 451 for now. I finally found Animal Spirits at a Barnes & Noble. Read the first 5 pages and I'm hooked.

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You should scratch 451 all together.

[Guest Phailadelphia]

You didn't like it?

[Zack_of_Steel+ 3,014]

I think I'm one of the only people in the world that didn't.

[RazorStar 4,025]

Just finished Memories of Ice.

 

Kruppe managed to piss me off a bit less near the end, but he's still just the worst thing in the series.

 

 

 

How the hell did Duiker survive? I thought he got crucified at the end of book 2 unless I missed something.

Quick Ben, always awesome. Paran... much better. The siege of coral was really intense.

Kallor, you son of a bitch! Whiskeyjack was cool. And thn you just off him... you fucking crippled god following bastard.

How the hell does Toc survive all the shit he goes through... jesus christ.

Is everyone an ascendant in this? Seriously....

 

 

 

[Vin+ 3,121]

If memory serves, Duiker ends up with the vial that Ben sent to Coltaine in book two (or maybe it was Memories, it's been a while...). Baruk is able to resurrect him because of it.

[Tridentdawgpound 1,043]

Just finished A Dance With Dragons. So...nothing.

 

 

Just general thoughts on the series yet to be televised

 

My most anticipated scene of Season 4: Oberyn Martell vs Ser Gregor

 

I hope Dolorous Edd is focused on in the show because he's the funniest character in the series.

 

It is hilarious that Tywin Lannister died whilst pooping.

 

Congratulations to Quentyn Martell for joining Ned Stark as the only POV characters to be introduced in the story and not last an entire book.

 

*pokes with stick* Hey...Daenerys. You think you could, I dunno, kinda...maybe...do something?

 

“Spare me your fawning, Janos, it will not serve you.” He rose to his feet and frowned at them all." - No line in any series ever has summed up a character like that line does Stannis Baratheon. He's tired of your shit, everybody.

 

I've never felt more emotion for a fictional character than when Jon gets the Jeor Mormont treatment near the end of ADWD.

 

Also, I finally looked into that R+L=J thing. It...seems pretty solid.

 

Edited August 15, 2013 by Tridentdawgpound

[Guest Phailadelphia]

Animal Spirits was fantastic. Good intro of human psychology into economics if anyone is interested in that sort of thing.

 

I started reading Keynes Hayek a couple days ago. I've learned some very cool things already. For instance, Friedrich Hayek in his young adult days was actually a socialist! And Keynes was an unabashed, promiscuous homosexual. Plus lots of interesting economic factoids I won't bore any of you with.

[HUMCALC 3]

Now I'm reading "Split Second" by David Baldacci

[BwareDWare94 723]

My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

[OSUViking 505]

My experience with The Sun Also Rises took a wrong turn, I think. I loved the first half of the book. I probably read the first half in an hour or so. I waited about a month and a half to start reading the second half, but it was just a crawl. It took me something like 4 hours to finish that and I was uninterested the entire time. I'm sure once my class begins dialogue on the novel, I will appreciate it more - that was the case with East of Eden.

 

I have one question though. I do believe that Hemingway was trying to summarize the Lost Generation in the main group we experienced; was he trying to make us hate them because of how awful they were as people?

[oochymp 2,393]

wow, I haven't posted here in a while, I finished Innocent, it was good, but not as good as some of Turow's other novels, I just finished Michael Connelly's Lost Light, which might be my favorite of his novels that I've read to this point, and I just started another Grisham novel, The Street Lawyer

finished The Street Lawyer, it was really good, though a bit preachy at times (but that's Grisham for you) now I'm reading Scott Turow's The Laws of our Fathers, about 100 pages into it, so far it's pretty good, about what I've come to expect from Turow